Google starts playing with video Ads
Google has started testing Video Ads on their search result page, here is the screenshot below,
Meizu M8 MiniOne New Interface Look
Has Meizu finally stopped tweaking on the M8 phone, a.k.a the Chinese iPhone? Cnmo.com of China believes so, and they have published several scintillating photos of an all-black Meizu M8 phone. Yes, even the GUI is black. Now, I don’t know about how die-hard Apple fans would react to the photo above and the additional photos below, but you must be damned blind if you didn’t think the Chinese iPhone is just rad. And oh, it’s going to be released in China in August.
Nokia N82 Black announced
Nokia has announced a new black color scheme for its popular N82 candybar smartphone. The N82 is based on Nokia’s S60 smartphone operating system and features a built-in GPS receiver. The handset’s 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, Xenon flash, and Carl Zeiss optics have made it a hit in the cameraphone market.
Motorola’s new strategy: 8Mp Motorola Scarven, 5Mp Motorola Z12 XPixl, Motorola ROKR E10 Texel, Motorola Qx Genghis
Motorola gave a presentation in Amsterdam, showing-off it’s new phone line-up for Christmas. However the new display of the new line-up for this year was not enough to excite the public, so Motorola decided to reveal their new mobile phone strategy and even provided a glimpse into it’s new handsets that should be released next year.
In the strategy field, Motorola will now be will now be marketing mobile phones in 4 categories - ROKR line for the music focused phones, ZOOM line for the camera phones, RAZR’s will feature all the new multimedia handsets and Multi Q line will be reserved for a business oriented phones.
Samsung’s musicphones ready for Europe
Samsung announced today its new music phone line-up. With the launch of its newest line-up of music dedicated phones, the SGH-i450, SGH-F330 and SGH-F210, Samsung offers multiple choices for mobile phone users.
Let’s ramble about them.
Rsizr: Web based Photo resizer
You are on a vacation and you want to resize, invert and edit the Pictures. This is when Rsizr comes to your aid, all you need is a latest flash player installed on the computer and you are ready to go. It supports all major image formats, do you don’t need to sort out the images.
As I got a little hand on their website, I wanted to see how far it can go to resize the image. To my surprise all features were simple to use, even a 4 year kid can resize the image, and the results came very powerful. It did not reduce the quality of the image while resizing. When I tried to resize the same image via Microsoft image editor, there was a loss in quality. So, this is where Rsizr came to my aid. 
Microsoft adds Vista features for new Windows XP SP3 beta
jBubba writes on NeoSmart Technologies,
“Windows XP SP3 build 3205 is the first official & authorized release of the next Windows XP service pack; and has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program. NeoSmart Technologies has the run-down on the included 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates. Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with new features/components, most of which have been backported from Windows Vista. Some included features: ‘New Windows Product Activation model: no need to enter product key during setup. Network Access Protection modules and policies have been brought to XP after being one of the more-well-received features in Windows Vista. New Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module - the Windows XP SP3 kernel now includes an entire module that provides easy access to multiple cryptographic algorithms and is available for use in kernel-mode drivers and services. New “Black Hole Router” detection - Windows XP SP3 can detect and protect against rogue routers that are discarding data.’”
Zune 4 and Zune 8 won’t have TV out
I wrote here few days back that the new Zunes will support formats up-to 720×480 @ 30fps and 720×576 @ 25fps without transcoding via Vide-out. Well this is only correct for Zune80, the small flashy Zune4 and Zune8 will not have the Video-out function. 
40GB PS3 launch date in USA, Europe and Japan
Sony is launching 40GB PS3 in 3 different territories, so let’s talk about them one by one.
iPhone firmware v.1.1.1 Hacked !
I reported before that the latest firmware v.1.1.1 by Apple disables your iPhone here. Now finally the iPhone Dev guys have hacked this firmware, and this is just the first step. To release a hacking tool alot more is needed to be done.
